My partner went from Hervey Bay to Brisbane today.Luckily she got through OK.
I just checked out the Qld Alert site a few minutes ago.The Bruce Highway through Gympie is closed at Deep creek with water over the road.
I know the bridge there and normally it's around 50'-60' down to the creek. That's deep.I feel sorry for the locals with so much rain and it seems that the floods are at the 12 metres level and expected to reach 16 metres tomorrow morning.
Just hope everyone is OK and coping.
My thoughts are with all the people who are at risk
aussietraveller said
06:35 AM Feb 26, 2012
This flooding is going to last some time as the water moves to the coast and down the rivers and creeks, we all need to take extra caution as we travel and also spare a thought for people in its path
Cruising Granny said
07:37 AM Feb 26, 2012
My thoughts are with all of the Queenslanders affected by these huge floods. It's the wet season alright. Please be careful if you have to travel. The Bruce Highway is not traffic friendly in ideal conditions, so with all this rain, soft edges and poor visibility the utmost caution must be exercised. With all the water that fell west of the Great Dividing Range heading down the Darling, it should reach the Murray in a couple of months. The Murray in SA is still running a banker, with some of the flattest flood plains still covered with a foot of water in some places. Fire, feast, famine and flood. That's life in Australia, but it's a pity it can't be evened out a little better.
Dougwe said
02:59 PM Feb 26, 2012
My thoughts go out to all in any of the flooded areas. I got caught in the bad weather in Melbourne on Xmas night with water up to the door of the car and that was bad enough but what the flooded ares are going through is really bad, keep your chin up guys and gals.
glassies said
05:11 PM Feb 26, 2012
just had friends from port mcq leave our house going up the highway and expecting to get through to gympie heading for a wedding at rockhampton, i think we might see them tonight back here, as even out west of gympie you are still unable to get through.
it poured and poured last night here, yesterday landsborough had something like 5 to 6 inches of rain in no time it sure is the wet season that for sure.
mr glassies said
05:15 PM Feb 26, 2012
we just had friends leave glass house mtns heading nth to rocky hop they get through i couldnt stand another drinking night like last night lol dibs
Dougwe said
05:22 PM Feb 26, 2012
Not good at all g & mr g. I hope things are ok in your world at this point in time. As I have said before I read all your posts but don't post back all the time but you are both in my thoughts. I do know what you are going through.
Gerty Dancer said
05:49 PM Feb 26, 2012
We jave family all over the country, but more in Brisbane, so we were going to move to SE Qld. Changed our mind, couldnt cope with that much humidity, let alone floods. As your Premier said, you Queenslanders are TOUGH! Bless you and stay safe.
the rocket said
08:28 PM Feb 26, 2012
that river can show no mercy. as a small child i was in a street behind the big pineappple near the river after rain and it was soooo scary. it was a raging torent. people in gympie and surrounds stay well away and stay safe. rocket n strop
Beth54 said
09:19 PM Feb 26, 2012
Gerty, it's not so humid up in the Toowoomba area.
I have two lots of friends who lived in the Logan area and moved up there a few years ago and love it.
Haven't regretted it for one minute.
One couple live in Toowoomba and the other couple at Highfields, to the north.
Gerty Dancer said
10:32 PM Feb 26, 2012
Thought Toowoomba was the go too Beth, till the floods last year. That was really scary!
neilnruth said
10:49 PM Feb 26, 2012
My brother lives in Toowoomba and they can still have some very hot days there too. And yes, there's the ' 2011 flood'!
Beth54 said
12:57 AM Feb 27, 2012
That flood was once in a lifetime, by the sounds of the locals.
Gee! If you don't go to someplace because it once flooded there, you'd be missing out on a lot of country.
Yes, it does get hot, but they don't have the humidity like we do in Logan/Brisbane.
glassies said
04:47 AM Feb 27, 2012
they came back and had lunch and headed out to miles etc and up on the leichardt highway
they are almost there, what a big drive that was they will be buggered
Beth54 said
06:47 AM Feb 27, 2012
glassies wrote:
they came back and had lunch and headed out to miles etc and up on the leichardt highway
they are almost there, what a big drive that was they will be buggered
My partner went from Hervey Bay to Brisbane today.Luckily she got through OK.
I just checked out the Qld Alert site a few minutes ago.The Bruce Highway through Gympie is closed at Deep creek with water over the road.
I know the bridge there and normally it's around 50'-60' down to the creek. That's deep.I feel sorry for the locals with so much rain and it seems that the floods are at the 12 metres level and expected to reach 16 metres tomorrow morning.
Just hope everyone is OK and coping.
My thoughts are with all the people who are at risk
Please be careful if you have to travel. The Bruce Highway is not traffic friendly in ideal conditions, so with all this rain, soft edges and poor visibility the utmost caution must be exercised.
With all the water that fell west of the Great Dividing Range heading down the Darling, it should reach the Murray in a couple of months.
The Murray in SA is still running a banker, with some of the flattest flood plains still covered with a foot of water in some places.
Fire, feast, famine and flood. That's life in Australia, but it's a pity it can't be evened out a little better.
My thoughts go out to all in any of the flooded areas. I got caught in the bad weather in Melbourne on Xmas night with water up to the door of the car and that was bad enough but what the flooded ares are going through is really bad, keep your chin up guys and gals.
for a wedding at rockhampton, i think we might see them tonight back here, as even out west of gympie you are
still unable to get through.
it poured and poured last night here, yesterday landsborough had something like 5 to 6 inches of rain in no time
it sure is the wet season that for sure.
dibs
Not good at all g & mr g. I hope things are ok in your world at this point in time. As I have said before I read all your posts but don't post back all the time but you are both in my thoughts. I do know what you are going through.
that river can show no mercy. as a small child i was in a street behind the big pineappple near the river after rain and it was soooo scary. it was a raging torent. people in gympie and surrounds stay well away and stay safe. rocket n strop
Gerty, it's not so humid up in the Toowoomba area.
I have two lots of friends who lived in the Logan area and moved up there a few years ago and love it.
Haven't regretted it for one minute.
One couple live in Toowoomba and the other couple at Highfields, to the north.
That flood was once in a lifetime, by the sounds of the locals.
Gee! If you don't go to someplace because it once flooded there, you'd be missing out on a lot of country.
Yes, it does get hot, but they don't have the humidity like we do in Logan/Brisbane.
they are almost there, what a big drive that was they will be buggered
Yes, a long way around all right Della!